linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.14 17/17] firmware: include drivers/firmware/Kconfig unconditionally

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Date:   Wed, 13 Oct 2021 12:16:44 +0100
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
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        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.14 17/17] firmware: include
 drivers/firmware/Kconfig unconditionally

On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 08:54:41PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> 
> [ Upstream commit 951cd3a0866d29cb9c01ebc1d9c17590e598226e ]
> 
> Compile-testing drivers that require access to a firmware layer
> fails when that firmware symbol is unavailable. This happened
> twice this week:

This seems *way* too invasive a change for stable.  It exposes code to
building on entire new architectures.

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